Following our successful AGM, the Civic Forum have reviewed the last year’s activities and have produced this summary document, which also looks forward to our future campaigns and projects – come along and support us with these valuable efforts to … Continue reading
Meadows Edge – what came out of the meeting with Tesco? In early January, Transition Belper and Pauline Latham MP organised a meeting with a limited number of invitees and Tesco representatives. These notes are from the Transition in Belper … Continue reading
Belper residents and occasional visitors will have noticed the many physical improvements to key buildings in the town centre in recent years. This is no accident! Much is owed to the grant support from the HLF’s Townscape Heritage Initiative. Come … Continue reading
The subject of neighbourhood planning for Belper is very topical again, and we’re pleased to announce that Mike Ratcliffe, who has been leading on Wirksworth’s plan, has agreed to speak on that town’s experiences of the process. This meeting is … Continue reading
Belper Civic Forum has been active over the last few years consulting with local residents and organisations, in order to put forward positive proposals for the Meadows Edge site, centred on Derwent Street, Belper. The links here are to our … Continue reading
At the end of November 2013 the Civic Forum hosted an impromptu meetingwith Network Rail’s consultants Alan Baxter and Associates at which their engineers gave a presentation on plans for electrification of the Midland Mainline between London St Pancras and … Continue reading
Belper Civic Forum is currently experiencing difficulties with its hotmail account, Belpercivicforum@hotmail.co.uk. This means that we are at present unable to send out and receive any messages via this site. If you have tried contacting us recently thorough this, please … Continue reading
Amber Valley Borough Council have announced plans to finally demolish and replace the crumbling, un-listed, Swiss Tea rooms in Belper River Garden. Proposals for the new building can be found at New Swiss Tea Rooms proposals Planning application AVA/2013/0877 … Continue reading
Have you ever wanted to know more about Belper’s unusally large network of urban footpaths, known locally as ‘channels’?. Some of them go back hundreds of years, are the source of local legend, and are a living part of the … Continue reading
We’re sorry to announce that this year’s study visit to the Somerset town of Frome, which was planned for Saturday 28 September, has now been postponed. We had chosen the town as it has an innovative approach to town planning, … Continue reading